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Compound-complex sentence

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A sentence made up of one main clause and at least one subordinate clause. It is the combination of a compound sentence with a complex sentence.

Adjective

Language; Grammar

In grammar, an adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun. For example, the word "beautiful" is an adjective that modifies the word "day" in the sentence: It's a beautiful day.

Adverb clause

Language; Grammar

A subordinate clause that functions as an adverb to modify a verb, adjective, or another adverb. It answers one of four questions: how, when, where, and why. An adverb clause always begins with a ...

Dangling modifier

Language; Grammar

A dangling modifier is a clause which says something other than the one intended because words are ordered incorrectly or left out. The meaning of the sentence, therefore, is left "dangling." A ...

Allophone

Language; Grammar

One of the phonetic variants that belong to a single phoneme. For example, the phoneme /p/ of English has two allophones. One, (ph), has a puff of air after the lips open, and occurs at the ...

Fusional language

Language; Grammar

Fusional languages are those in which the divisions between morphemes tend to be difficult to identify and individual affixes tend to have complex meanings. Spanish, like many other European ...

Allomorph

Language; Grammar

A variant pronunciation of a morpheme, especially when it involves a change of phonemes. Allomorphs which are phonologically related provide cases of phonological alternation, which can be important ...

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